Kakuyuni Library news

An extract from the report: After getting the replacement of the Assistant Librarian/ IT Trainer, work has been running very smoothly with the cooperation of Erickson Kiboni Ruwa the Assistant Librarian and IT Tutor. We received the new African story books and they have a very big impact to the young readers. The library is […]

Kahindi Gharama is a former Akili bursary student from Kakuyuni. He is now in his final year at Egerton University studying economics and statistics. On 30 July he organised a meeting at Kakuyuni Library, in association with the Librarian, to discuss the academic performance of local primary and secondary students and ideas for improving this. […]

An extract from the report: The library is an attraction to educationist even in far locations. we had visitors from a catholic mission primary school coming to learn and see the library set up as they had not seen one before. We as well had the normal visitors from Desturi junior school coming to read […]

An extract from the report: As this quarter marks the beginning of the year many students had not embarked on school work so in January and Feb students were still nursing the long holiday hangovers. In March they had come back to class in full swing hence using the library in big numbers as usual. […]

An extract from the report: The library remains a very important facility to most students. During the national teachers’ strike most students had to use the library as an education centre as they had no where to go. In the course of these three months, October and November were very busy months compared to December […]

The meeting was held on 26th April 2017 at Dabaso Library. 28 Students, former students and librarians from both libraries attended. The meeting was organized by the librarians and empowered by the Akili Trust Organization. At the meeting, present members agreed to a formula on how to conduct the event. Eventually, the final verdict was […]

After two years of drought, there has been a devastating amount of rainfall on coastal Kenya, particularly affecting the Malindi province, where Kakuyuni school is based. The ceiling of Kakuyuni library has collapsed, damaging books and endangering those who enter the building: it is closed for the foreseeable future until the problems have been fixed. […]